The vision of Piers Plowman : a critical edition of the B-text / William Langland
| dc.contributor | Burnley, J.D. Department of English University of Sheffield Sheffield |
| dc.contributor.author | Langland, William, 1330?-1400? |
| dc.contributor.editor | Schmidt, A.V.C. (Aubrey Vincent Carlyle) |
| dc.coverage.placeName | London |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-19T14:52:48Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-19T14:52:48Z |
| dc.date.created | 1387 |
| dc.date.issued | 1992-04-03 |
| dc.identifier | ota:1687 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/1687 |
| dc.description.abstract | Based on Trinity College Cambridge MS, B.15.17 |
| dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 504 KB) |
| dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
| dc.language | English, Middle (1100-1500) |
| dc.language.iso | enm |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
| dc.relation.isreplacedby | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/3261 |
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| dc.rights.label | ACA |
| dc.subject.lcsh | English literature -- 14th century |
| dc.subject.other | Parables |
| dc.title | The vision of Piers Plowman : a critical edition of the B-text / William Langland |
| dc.type | Text |
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<Text id=PPlLan> <Author>Langland, William</Author> <Title>The Vision of Piers Plowman</Title> <Edition>A. V. C. Schmidt, editor. B text. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1978.</Edition> <Date>1377-1379</Date> <body> <loc><locdoc>PPlLan_Pro</locdoc> <div0 n=Prologue> <l n=P.1> In a somer seson, whan softe was the sonne,</l> <l n=P.2>I shoop me into shroudes as I a sheep were,</l> <l n=P.3>In habite as an heremite unholy of werkes,</l> <l n=P.4>Wente wide in this world wondres to here.</l> <l n=P.5>Ac on a May morwenynge on Malverne hilles</l> <l n=P.6>Me bifel a ferly, of Fairye me thoghte.</l> <l n=P.7>I was wery forwandred and wente me to reste</l> <l n=P.8>Under a brood bank by a bourne syde;</l> <l n=P.9>And as I lay and lenede and loked on the watres,</l> <l n=P.10>I slombred into a slepyng, it sweyed so murye.</l> <l n=P.11>Thanne gan I meten a merveillous swevene--</l> <l n=P.12>That I was in a wildernesse, wiste I nevere where.</l> <l n=P.13>A[c] as I biheeld into the ee . . .
